Rich

It was fully expected as soon as I added the "could be someone else" line You lot are too predictable. Everyone's a funny bastard these days!

He's talking specifically staff-wise, I think.

http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/sub/TVNews/0,,10278~1223364,00.html? Big Terry McDermott interview with Craig Hope on Newcastle World, where he talks about all the usual things, but finishes off speaking about Arthur Cox's return to the NUFC staff... "I'd like to think we've got 3 people at the club at the minute who, absolutely, would die for this club and, hopefully, hopefully, in a day or two - or maybe a bit more - we might have a fourth one." The smile he gives at the very end, just after saying it, says it all for me - as does Craig Hope's chuckle. It might turn out to be somebody else, but I'm fairly certain after seeing that interview that he's hoping for Shearer, who is due back from Uganda this weekend.

Just what I was thinking. Re: what Janitor says I know people up here are interested in the arts, whether that by poetry, theatre, paintings, ballet or whatever. I like going to the Laing now and again myself, ponce that I am, but KK was genuine in what he said imo and there is definitely more interest amongst a greater proportion of the population in the North East in football than there is in lots of parts of the country. It's a genuine and pretty knowledgable interest too which you just wouldn't find across the board in the South East. I was looking at it the other way more than anything. Because Keegan was speaking at a press conference and only people really interested in football would be watching/listening I simply think the comment was designed to rile the majority of the press. That's why I think it was a calculated comment more than anything, because of where and how it was said, and because of who he was in the room with at the time. He was speaking to blokes who've given their careers to the game, for the most part, and all the Southerners watching down south would most likely be football fans as well. Personally I know a lot of Southerners, and they're all far more interested in supporting their respective teams than they are in the theatre. I'm not sure KK would make such a sweeping, generalising statement about the majority of this country's population without having an agenda behind it. I just think he wanted to wind them up and play on the "us and them" mentality, to help himself and the club more than anything and fair play to him, because it's worked a treat. He'll have to back it up though, big style, because there'll be many hoping Arsenal trounce us at the weekend now. I'd even love a fighting draw and then getting into them psychologically by going on about bringing them back "up here" for the replay. I might be giving him too much credit here, but it's how I'd like to read into it. First and foremost we need to make teams fear coming to St. James' again, comments like that one can only help in that respect.

I'm not sure I fully believe the comment itself, I'm not sure even Keegan does, but I love what it was designed to do and has subsequently done, if you get me. He's not a daft bloke like.

Telegraph. One of the worst articles I've seen on there, utterly pointless.

It works for Sven.

I'm loving all of this stuff, personally. People can't stop talking about us.

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_3074757,00.html Got 22 goals this season apparently, he's no Vassell tbh...but can anyone who has seen more of him than me tell me about him. What type of player is he (Compare him to someone who has played in England...?) I don't like the bloke much personally, as he's a gangly sort with a bit of a rogue streak in him. I've seen him play a good number of times for Sevilla thanks to the wonders of Sky's relentless Spanish Football coverage. I would genuinely struggle to compare him to anyone of note in the Premiership, he strikes me as a unique sort of striker, who's big and powerful, but has a good touch and can run with the ball at his feet. Sort of like an Henry, but obviously not to that level of brilliance. Is a frustrating sort of player in many ways, but when he's on form and if given the right service he'll score plenty of goals. I've seen him score all sorts of different goals, he's strong in the air and a powerful runner as well. Could be an inspired signing.

Where's that GHoeber-X fella to tell us Kluivert is still better and RVN is the spawn of satan's horse?

I only know him because he's a beast on Football Manager, and for all the stick the game takes on here as a basis of knowledge, it's pretty well researched these days. I suppose for many that's enough to get them excited. Like you, I'll wait and see if it does happen and hope for the best.

Fair enough, that post has made me less sceptical, personally. It's nice to dream.

SSR has been on fire lately. Fair play.

Apologies if this has already been posted within another article, but it looked new to me. It's on the Channel 4 website.

Do you trust the person who told you? As far as sauces go, is he more of a HP or a Daddies?

Doctor - "Why, Mrs Kluivert, that's the fattest baby I've ever seen!" Midwife - "You think that's something, the woman in the next ward has just given birth to a horse." :laugh:

Surely a medical is the final part of the deal, though? If you complete your medical then you've usually had an offer accepted for you, agreed a contract, etc. Why would it take a few days to unveil them after a medical? Does it have to be the final part? Maybe everything has been agreed but not yet finalised. [/dreaming] I like this new hopeful Dave. We'll see. He's about the 3rd person who's posted this about Woodgate, though.

Who is Pandev? http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=49301.0

Surely a medical is the final part of the deal, though? If you complete your medical then you've usually had an offer accepted for you, agreed a contract, etc. Why would it take a few days to unveil them after a medical?

I was going to post something very similar, but didn't for fears of this turning into a slagging session. I was fishing with that last bit, in fairness. Should have checked if Alex was online first... like a bee to honey he would have been.

Didn't make sense once the other post was removed, howay man!

Have we ever had two players who were exactly the same age? This could be a great trivia question. Where's James, he'd love a thread like this.

Not sure there are any "legal" ways, unfortunately. Probably a timely moment to remind people that online streaming is illegal, and could get us a spank on the e-bottom if spotted. So no links please folks.

Get out of town.